Katie regales us with tales of their ordinary family life, including their collective love of board games (Suri loves Yahtzee and Scrabble apparently Scientology produces preternaturally intelligent children no Candyland for this girl!), barbecues and pool parties.

I met Tom, I knew in an instant that we were going to be together, that we were going to get married, gushes Katie. She also goes on to say that they first met at a business meeting. Of course she knew they'd one day be married! It was a business meeting to discuss the terms of her 10-year contract for the role of the Third Mrs. Tom Cruise. How positively serendipitous!

Katie goes on to reveal, I don't really cook that muchI do make cupcakes. And [Tom] makes his Pasta Carbonara for me. He knows exactly how to do it: a pinch of this, a pinch of that. He has a recipe, but he also kind of [improvises] by himself. You have to do the egg at a certain time. He did it once when we were camping.

Ahem.

Apparently, I am expected to believe that:

• Tom Cruise makes Pasta Carbonara
• Katie Homes eats Pasta Carbonara a super-rich, cream, bacon and egg spaghetti dish that clocks in at about 25 grams of fat per serving; and
• Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes camp (and I mean camp in a tent and bonfire way, not in an exaggerated effeminate or homosexual behaviour way).

Seriously. Is this supposed to make her relatable' to normal women? In my view, she'd be far more relatable' and far more likeable if she confessed that like millions of other women out there, she goes to bed at night and:

• Berates herself for the many times she lost her patience and yelled at little Suri Why is it that motherhood make celebrities wise' and strong' yet makes normal women exhausted' and cranky'?
• Strategizes ways to navigate her overly-controlled marriage and escape the ever-tightening tentacles of Scientology
• Obsesses over what she can avoid eating the next day in order to make up for binging on all that freaking Pasta Carbonara.

Revealing some truths once in a while may not contribute to her icon status, but it sure would make her a bit more believable.

By Andrea Corlett